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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - James 3:16 - 3:16
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envying - So English Version translates the Greek, which usually means “zeal”; “emulation,” in Rom 13:13. “The envious man stands in his own light. He thinks his candle cannot shine in the presence of another’s sun. He aims directly at men, obliquely at God, who makes men to differ.”
strife - rivalry [Alford].
confusion - literally, “tumultuous anarchy”: both in society (translated “commotions,” Luk 21:9; “tumults,” 2Co 6:5), and in the individual mind; in contrast to the “peaceable” composure of true “wisdom,” Jam 3:17. James does not honor such effects of this earthly wisdom with the name “fruit,” as he does in the case of the wisdom from above. Jam 3:18; compare Gal 5:19-22, “works of the flesh ... fruit of the Spirit.”